Welcome to Litsy!

Okay, so the postal notice yesterday was not my #SecretSantaGoesPostal #Wintersolsticebookexchange
However, when I got home, among some other book goodies that I will post about elsewhere, where these two gems. With any luck, one will be the magic parcel. 🙂

I love the wrapping so much I hate to open it! Lol! #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticebookexchange @Avanders So excited!!

Good news! I believe the postperson tried to deliver my parcel.
Bad news! I have a job (😂) and missed the postperson

I'll have to pick up my parcel tomorrow (at least I think it's my #WinterSolsticeBookExchange #SecretSantaGoesPostal surprise), so no midnight reveal this time.

(The postperson makes me sound like I have sharp teeth)

I received this beautiful surprise yesterday. Thank you @Captivatedbybooks It is still a mystery what is inside🤔Just four more days! 🤗 @MrBook @BookBabe @Avanders #SecretSantaGoesPostal

@Anovelobsession Your #whodunitdoeschristmas package arrived yesterday! Can‘t wait to open it in a few days...though the post office tried to help. What is up with them lately??? I‘ve seen so many damaged packages posted (and your missing #whodunitbymail books), it seems a bit ridiculous. 😠

This finally went out today!! I wanted to decorate the box but I had no time. 😕 Better luck next year? Hope this makes it to my match safely. Is that you??? Hehehe 😝

#secretsantagoespostal
#wintersolsticebookexchange

Hooray look what came today! Thanks @EllieDottie
@Tiffy_Reads #whodunitdoeschristmas

It's a WRAP (see what I did there)?
All packaged up and just shipped off 🎄
#secretsantagoespostal #illnevertell

I came home to my #secretsantagoespostal and omg the urge to open it is killing me !!! 😬

Just got home to this beauty. Thanks Brittany! Can‘t wait to open this one.
#secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticebookexchange

This is now boxed and going to the post office tomorrow.
#whodunitdoeschristmas
#whodunitbymail

Look what came in the mail from @Carleneishere ! So excited! #SecretSantaGoesPostal #WinterSolsticeBookExchange

My box arrived! Can‘t wait to open it! #wintersolsticebookexchange #secretsantagoespostal

It arrived @Shannon_McKinney 👏👏👏👏😘
My #secretsantagoespostal has arrived all the way here in #Seattle from #Springfield, OH 😽
And it is HEAVY!! HOW DO I NOT OPEN IT? I am NOT good at waiting. I have totally realized this.
I still need to finish getting stuff together for my box to mail out; I‘m waiting for things to arrive still. Very slow deliveries, especially Book Outlet.
Thank you, Secret Santa!!! 💓💓💓😽

Whew! #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticebookexchange all wrapped up. I‘ll be dropping it off at UPS tomorrow! ❄️🌲📚

My #SecretSantaGoesPostal goodies are wrapped and ready! Minus one thing that I couldn‘t include in the picture without giving away the surprise. Going to the post office tomorrow to ship this and my #BookMarkSwap packages! 🎅🏼🎄📦📬

En route to my secret santa! #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticebookexchange

Spending my morning shopping for my #SecretSanta recipients, I have three to shop for which means more fun for me! Wrapping them tonight then sending them tomorrow Express post. Hopefully they‘ll get to their destinations on the other side of the world in time! I‘ve got a Month right?🤞And pat on the back to me, I walked out of the bookstore with no books for me! A first in, hmmm, forever? #SecretSantaGoesLitmail #SecretSantaLitsyAroundTheWorld

4(!!!) more challenges for my #SecretSanta 🎄 and also because it‘s fun.
#Giftswapsurvey @teebe
1. Diverse, Young Adult, Representation matters
2. Leigh Bardugo because KICK ASS FEMALE CHARAS
3. Hetero Porn
4. More fantasy!
5. Twilight (so problematic, also dull)
6. @EchoLogical

Ok last one:
Lisa Lutz, Kevin Kwan, Anthony Bourdain, Ruth Reichl
All of the books
Popcorn, chocolate covered pretzels, potato chips 🤤
Bookmarks, pins, socks
Knitting, cooking, tie dying
Zuppa Toscana
Cuba, New Orleans, Russia
Parks & Rec, Psych, West Wing, Bobs Burgers
Ava Gardner, Gal Gadot Wonder Woman, HRC, Obama, Clifford

I love maple anything, dark chocolate (w/ oranges🤤), cider, cocoa
Love red, blue, silver
I like stickers, pins, or bookmarks.
I knit, cross stitch, play with my pup, music festivals, theater, watch ballet
Either. I love fiction and lately nonfiction animal, or memoirs
Peonies and dahlias
Not a priority but I do want to get into bullet journaling

Other fandom favorites: Hillary Clinton, puns, stars, orcas, feminism

Last one! Wanted to get it done in one fell swoop 😂💙Anne Shirley 📬Anne of Green Gables and Secret Garden 💙September 📬Two dogs and 1 cat 💙Single and no kids 📬I read 4 books per week bc I read 4 at a time- I don‘t complete a book usually in under a month 📬Paper 💙Auld Lang Syne 📬 Both! Depends on subject 💙 Not big on watching sports, though I love playing Basketball and Crossfit 📬Sushi! Cooked 🤗💙Neil Gaiman- I am very new to his books▶️

⛄️ Both! Just must be Gluten Free! I am Gluten intolerant ( not by choice 😞) ❄️Either! ⛄️I love Personalized/ Unique items, but understand pricing and time conflicts ❄️ Cold! ⛄️Bookmarks! ❄️Not to picky, just no Books with abuse of any kind or sexual assault/ scenes / etc. A good clean book 🤗 EXTRA BONUS 🎁🎁🎁I love anything that has to do with Anne Green Gables or Harry Potter 💙 #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticeexchage

Just bought my Litsy match‘s Books plus some others for presents!! 🎁 Darn you Litsy making me like your prices and buy all my books from you 😂🎄🎁🎉 #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticeexchange

I just ordered a bunch of stuff for my #SecretSantaGoesPostal recipient and I‘m so freaking excited. We have similar tastes so it was super fun to shop, although I ended up buying doubles of stuff so I could have it too. 😂 Anyway, here‘s a picture of my dog. I just picked him up from the groomer‘s and he‘s mad at me. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Sorry I have been out of Litsy recently - it‘s been a crazy past week and last night I had a GoRuck Competition I am recovering from. HOWEVER, I will now post a couple things about my reading tastes for my Litsy Secret Santa !! 🎄Both! 🎄stand alone preferably 🎄tea- non caffeinated but any kind! 🎄Candle- LOVE Lavender 🎄neutral colors 🎄Fuzzy Socks 🎄No Funko characters. I hope this helps! #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticeexchange

Dear Secret Santa,

Here are #MostWantedTopFive but I would also really enjoy any new recos from you! Can‘t wait to see who you are! 😊😊😊

1. Atlas Obscura
2. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
3. The Fifth Season
4. After the Eclipse: A Mother‘s Murder, a Daughter‘s Search
5. Artemis

Best,
Helen

P.S. My Litsy TBR includes books I do not own.

🎶It's the season to be stalking, tralalalala🎶
My stalkee is lying low and I'm stressed by the lack of info. So I thought I'd help my own stalker out:
Avoid scents, we're an allergy/asthma household (but we have no food allergies!)
I love chocolate (dark/milk) and Scandinavian style salty liquorice will make me weep with joy. I don't wear jewellery, but love pins/buttons. And fluffy socks. I prefer deep colours to pastels. 😘

Ok, I'll do a couple of these since matches are coming out for #secretsantagoespostal
1️⃣ I like muted fall/winter colors
2️⃣ pretty journals, warm/cozy things, board games, dogs, pins, breakfast
3️⃣ The Eyre Affair
4️⃣ mysteries, lit fic, fantasy, nonfiction about weird topics like the history of medicine...
5️⃣ Funkopop, thrillers, white chocolate
6️⃣ Erinaceous means of or pertaining to hedgehogs.
7️⃣check Goodreads!

Since #ssgp matches are out I wanted offer some ideas (but will legit love anything bookish you choose so no pressure)
❄️Both. New is nice but I also love a well worn book (especially inscriptions!)
🐾 Either!
❄️Tea or Hot Coco (Love the smell of coffee but not the taste)
❄️candles
🎄Either!
❄️prefer socks to blankets (but I'm game)
❄️Not so much

Also all of my tbr on Litsy I don't own & I tried to mark on Goodreads too

Littens! I need your help!

My book club is doing a Secret Santa. Link me to your favorite bookish gifts under $25?

Here‘s one of mine. 💞📖

“Get Lost” Enamel Pin by Stationery Bicycles (only $10!):

https://www.etsy.com/listing/499846556/get-lost-in-a-book-enamel-pin-feminist

1. Orange and blue. No relation to sports teams.
2. Flannel sheets, Haribo sour gummy bears, wine, black coffee, Reeses Pb cups, paperbacks, turtles, penguins.
3. One of my favorites is Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.
4. Historical fiction
5. The cold, not getting enough sleep, tea, candles, air fresheners.
6. I'm the breadwinner.
7. Thekitchn.com 😉
8. @aschermetz and my new Litsy friends @mdm139 @MayginReads
@teebe

Gotta make sure I'm getting books this Christmas. :D

But also, new friends! Yay! 💌

Thanks @MrBook, @BookBabe and @Avanders for this project!

#SecretSantaGoesPostal
#WinterSolsticeBookExchange

This is my reaction to opening my #summersantagoespostal gifts! They're so amazing! Thank you so much @JacqMac and thank you to @BookishMarginalia for organizing this event! It's so nice to see everyone opening their gifts ok Litsy! I hope you all enjoy your gifts as much as I do!

@JacqMac Wow! I'm absolutely speechless! This is the most amazing goodie box! Thank you so much! You got all my favourite things: Hogwarts, tea, Pride and Prejudice (an adaptation that I've never heard of but it sounds awesome!) I can't believe the London bookends!! And I've wanted to read The Woman in Cabin 10 for so long! They're amazing! Thank you sooooo much! ❤️
#summersantagoespostal

These books and goodies are going to fly over the ocean to visit a mysterious Litsy friend👻Who is the person?🤔I had been following, stalking this match because the person read a lot and I didn't know what to choose😱I hope my match likes the goodies and doesn't have the books chosen.The package will be on time and the good news is that you don't have to wait long to open it. From PR to ? with all my heart these are for you #SecretSantaGoesSummer

I'm so excited! LOOK WHAT CAME TODAY! @Texreader @BookishMarginalia #summersantagoespostal

It came! Hooray! How in earth will I be able to contain my excitement until the 21st?!? :-) Thank you so much, @Iamlisa22 ♡♡♡ I can't wait to open it! :-) #summersantagoespostal #litsysummerbookexchange #summersolsticebookexchange @BookishMarginalia

Boxing these gifts up and heading to the post office today! #summersantagoespostal

I just signed up for my first litsy postal event! i am super excited! Thanks @BookishMarginalia for setting this up!#SummerSantaGoesPostal #SummerSolsticeBookExchange

I'm all signed up!!! If you haven't signed up for the #summersantagoespostal please go visit @BookishMarginalia for more info and sign up. It's so much fun. 🤓 #summersolsticebookexchange Graphic by @BookishMarginalia

A thousand thanks to @MeganAnn for this most amazing #SecretSantaGoesPostal package! I drank in the entire artistic experience of opening it, reading the indicated page before opening each gift. I am amazed at your artistry! The TREE! I will continue it throughout the journal just as the book indicates! The ROSE! So gorgeous! The esoteric candles! Lovely! THANK YOU for all the thought and care you put into this wondrous literary delight! ❤🌹🎄

Wow!!!! @DeeLew you are awesome!! I ❤️everything right on down to the Harry Potter postcards that I have almost purchased a few times. I am so grateful for everything! Thank you!!!! I can't wait to read both books, but especially The Terra-Cotta Dog. This series was a recommendation from a friend with great taste in books. Now that you have seconded that notion, I can't wait to dive in.

#secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticebookexchange

Not that I was going to open the package, but I finally decided it might be more festive to take the #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolticebookexchange gift out of the airmail wrapper. @ScorpioBookDreams means business - warning about not opening it all over the inner wrap. I'm getting excited!

I came home to a treat last night!! My #secretsanta has arrived!! The best part is my husband thinks it is a gift for him. 😂😂😂😂😂 I can't wait for 12/21!

On another note- the secret santa gift I planned to mail last Monday is finally going out today. Thank goodness for FedEx and a 2 day ship to Florida.

#thankyouDeeLew #secretsantagoespostal #wintersolsticebookexchange

I'm dying to open this! I've been staring at it for days!!! It's killing me!!!

Secret Santa mystery will be solved in three days. Also I have some drawing skillz. Thanks for organizing this @BookishMarginalia I had fun picking things out. Anxiety. But also fun! 🎁🎁📚⛄️ #wintersolsticebookexchange #secretsantagoespostal

Desperately trying to find out what happened to my #secretsantagoespostal parcel. According to tracking it was delivered early Dec but @LeahsBookNest never got it! I have launched an investigation with Australia Post but dealing with international post will take time. Really hoping it wasn't stolen.

@BookishMarginalia look what came in the mail today. And it really is a secret because they put secret santa as the sender love it. #secretsantagoespostal#superexcited